No one is talking about this / Patricia Lockwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lockwood, Patricia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social media--Fiction.

Social media.

Internet--Social aspects--Fiction.

Internet.

Internet--Social aspects.

Genre:

Experimental fiction.

Fiction.

Social problem fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

210 pages ; 23 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2021.

Summary:

"Is there life after the internet? A woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Published in the US by Riverhead Books, 2021.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781526629760

1526629763

9781526633835

1526633833

9781526636980

1526636980

OCLC:

1240135396